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Tom

@alas-not-me.bsky.social

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Always heard a different drum. Happy to talk about Tolkien on podcasts. 'Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many.' Finalist for The Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies @KentStateUPress

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@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 2:26 PM

time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin into the future

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:56 PM

Ruin the lives of rapists.

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:41 AM

thank you

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 9:43 PM

You will have to practice raising one eyebrow and saying it.

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 5:34 PM

In SG-1 the character T'ealc often comments "indeed." What does he say in German? Doch? Genau?

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:26 PM

James' work is groundbreaking and essential. The Oxford Tolkien Network is fortunate to have him.

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:22 PM

our orcs are already witless.

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:17 PM

well, thank you

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:45 AM

C'mon, Harry! "Killing it"?

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:33 AM

Of course we can’t understand Tom Bombadil
tomhillman3.substack.com/p/of-course-...

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:40 AM

I fail to have noticed this selection. I wonder if anyone is ever surprised by what it says about them.

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:02 PM

a fell beast, of course.

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:32 PM

lines in this case.

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:23 PM

very Morticia

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:22 PM

It's a perfectly good laptop otherwise. I just have to plug it into an external monitor. Which kind of spoils the whole mobility thang.

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:21 PM

Is that a failure that would happen all at once? A bit at a time? Or it could be either?

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:19 PM

Shaka, when the layoffs came.

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:16 PM

Does anybody know of any poems with an ABACBABC rhyme scheme? Iambic tetrameter, ideally.

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 6:44 PM

thank god

@alas-not-me.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 6:43 PM

Interesting discussion on Tolkien, the Great War, and other things.

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